Research on bespoke processors conducted by Prof. John Sartori’s group has been gaining currency recently. So what are bespoke processors? Conventional microprocessors used to drive embedded systems as seen in wearable and Internet of Things devices usually run a single application. However to ensure programmability and flexibility, these chips carry a large number of circuits, […]

ECE faculty, Prof. Ulya Karpuzcu, Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar, and Prof. Jian-Ping Wang have been awarded an $800,000 grant by the NSF under the Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme (SPX) program. Prof. Karpuzcu will be the lead PI for the project. Big data is regarded as a killer application that can resolve most major computing challenges of […]

A paper presented by ECE graduate student Muqing Liu, and co-authored by an all-ECE team (Muqing Liu, Chen Zhou, Qianying Tang, Prof. Keshab Parhi, and Prof. Chris Kim) has been selected for the best paper award at the 2017 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), a key conference on low power circuits […]

“Determining Application-specific Peak Power and Energy Requirements for Ultra-low-power Processors,” authored by doctoral student Hari Cherupalli and Prof. John Sartori (besides authors from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has received the Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2017. ASPLOS (ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems) is a premier conference addressing “multidisciplinary systems […]

Prof. Anand Gopinath has been awarded the 2017 Microwave Application Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for his contributions to the analysis of microstrip lines and their discontinuities. Microstrip lines are widely used in high frequency circuits and the generic form is a printed line on a dielectric substrate with a […]

Prof. John Sartori has been awarded the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. This is one of the most prestigious awards instituted by the NSF to recognize and support faculty early in their careers who show the potential to “serve as academic role models in research and […]

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar as one of its 2016 ACM Fellows for “contributions to the enhancement of performance and reliability in integrated circuits.” Prof. Sapatnekar’s research focuses on computer-aided design (CAD) of VLSI systems. Some of the specific problems that his research team have worked on recently include spintronics-based design, […]